Flesh-rotting tranq infects cocaine supply, takes aim at new, unsuspecting victimsBy Jack Morphet and Steve Janoski
July 31, 2023
The lab report left the prominent New York businessman stunned.
The 40-something-year-old from Massapequa Park, a tony suburban village on Long Island, had dabbled in cocaine now and again, but nothing harder.
But his toxicology report painted a far different picture: His blood was rife with fentanyl and xylazine — the animal sedative known as “tranq,’’ which is now not only infecting hardcore addicts but also recreational drug users by slithering into the cocaine supply.
“He said the only drug he took was cocaine, as a fun thing to do with friends occasionally,” Dr. Carol McKinney, a clinical social worker at Victory Recovery Partners in Massapequa Park, recently told The Post.
“He was shocked when we gave him the test results showing xylazine was in his system.”
Tranq is often associated with urban rot — with videos showing barely conscious addicts wandering mindlessly through drug-riddled neighborhoods in Philadelphia or Chicago, victims of a tranquilizer so powerful, it can put down a horse.
Now the “zombie drug” is lurking in mainstream party drugs such as cocaine, law enforcement officials and health care professionals say.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/flesh-rotting-tranq-infects-cocaine-supply-takes-aim-at-new-unsuspecting-victims/
